On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 15:23, Frank March wrote:
Think what Mr Gates has done to use up the abundant/free cpu cycles and RAM. Not always good/useful/desirable, but different from what we thought heavy use of computing was 30 years ago. Time was when a typewriter took no cpu cycles at all.
True in one sense, but I would not like to see us waste huge ammounts of bandwidth in the same proportions as Windows eats system resources. JSR is right though. Using bandwidth is not the issue, it's the fact that the person you are buying it off wants to charge an arm and a leg for it. I was able to fill my DSL pipe to the brim 24x7 when it was unrestricted, but then my provider put a 3G a month limit on it. I don't think we need Internet2 because I don't think that bandwidth providers will be able to swallow the charging model for our definition of 'High Bandwidth'. If you don't believe me then go and ask an NZ or AUS carrier what the price of an STM-64 is (yes it's a trick question on so many levels). Dean - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog